Bill > SB1203

This bill, known as the Stand for Security: Security Industry Standards and Public Safety Act, enacts significant overhauls to California's private security industry regulations starting January 1, 2029, primarily overseen by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), a state agency responsible for licensing and regulating private security professionals. It increases the required training for security guards and proprietary private security officers from 32 or fewer hours to a mandatory 42 hours of traditional classroom instruction, which must include at least eight hours of interactive, in-person deescalation training utilizing trauma-informed methods, as well as two hours dedicated to workers' rights. Employers—such as Private Patrol Operators (PPOs), who provide contracted security guard services, and proprietary private security employers, who hire in-house security personnel—are required to fully pay for and compensate employees for all training time, and qualified labor organizations are given a pathway to become certified to teach the mandated workers' rights portion. Additionally, the legislation increases annual continuing education requirements to 12 hours (with four dedicated to deescalation), mandates new standardized training on implicit and explicit bias in racial profiling and firearms use, expands incident reporting requirements for physical altercations and firearm discharges to include demographic data and training status, requires BSIS to publish annual data reports on these incidents, and adjusts various administrative fines and penalties for employers who fail to comply with these enhanced safety, recordkeeping, and compensation mandates.